Dutch, British police free teenage girls from suspected traffickers

Dutch and British police have arrested four suspected human traffickers and rescued four teenage girls hidden in the back of a camping car headed for Britain, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday.

Two of the suspects and their human cargo were on their way to Rotterdam to catch a ferry to Britain when Dutch gendarmes searched their camping car at a rest stop near the southern Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom on Thursday.

"The marechaussee (gendarmes) went into action after receiving a British request for help," the Public Prosecutor's office said in a statement.

British police have arrested a man in the northern city of Hull in connection with the case. There is a regular ferry service between Rotterdam and Hull.

A fourth man was arrested on Friday in Beverwijk, northwest of Amsterdam.